Richard Joseph Daley

39th Mayor of Chicago

Party

• Democrat

Elected

• First term:
  • February 22, 1955 (primary)
    • Defeated Benjamin Adamowski, Clarence R. Balek and Martin H. Kennelly
  • April 5, 1955 (general)
    • Defeated Robert E. Merriam (Republican)

• Second term:
  • February 24, 1959 (primary)
    • Defeated Lar Daly (America First)
  • April 7, 1959 (general)
    • Defeated Timothy P. Sheehan (Republican)
• Third term:
  • February 26, 1963 (primary)
    • Unopposed
  • April 2, 1963 (general)
    • Defeated Benjamin Adamowski (Republican)
• Fourth term:
  • February 28, 1967 (primary)
    • Unopposed
  • April 4, 1967 (general)
    • Defeated John L. Waner (Republican)
• Fifth term:
  • February 23, 1971 (primary)
    • Unopposed
  • April 6, 1971 (general)
    • Defeated Richard E. Friedman (Republican)
• Sixth term:
  • February 25, 1975 (primary)
    • Edward V. Hanrahan, Richard H. Newhouse and William S. Singer
  • April 1, 1975 (general)
    • Defeated John J. Hoellen (Republican) and Willie Mae Reid (Socialist Workers)

Inaugurations

• First term: April 20, 1955: Inaugural Address
• Second term: April 21, 1959: Inaugural Address
• Third term: April 17, 1963: Inaugural Address
• Fourth term: April 20, 1967: Inaugural Address
• Fifth term: April 21, 1971: Inaugural Address
• Sixth term: April 18, 1975: Inaugural Address

Terms of Office

• First term: 1955–1959
• Second term: 1959–1963
• Third term: 1963–1967
• Fourth term: 1967–1971
• Fifth term: 1971–1975
• Sixth term: 1975–1976 (died in office)

Birth

• May 15, 1902
• Chicago

Personal

• Earned a law degree from DePaul University
• Played second base for the Hamburgs
• 1936: Married Eleanor “Sis” Guilloyle; together they had seven children
• 1936: Elected to Illinois House
• 1938: Elected to Illinois State Senate
• 1941: Served as senate minority leader for five years
• 1949: Served as Governor Adlai Stevenson’s state director of revenue
• 1950: Elected Cook County clerk
• 1953: Became chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party

Death

• December 20, 1976
• Chicago

Gravesite

• Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, Worth, Ill.

Sources

• Chicago Tribune, June 8, 1975, p. H18.
• Chicago Tribune, December 21, 1976, p. 1.
• Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1980, p. K1.
• Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating and Janice L. Reiff, editors. Encyclopedia of Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2004.